Show RABBITS JACK AN AX AND SAGE l HENS BENS Fron Pa Pale Page e One Cline anticline one of oC t these esE series and have had several showings of oil oU and one one oneat of gas Tho The Hanson Hansen Exploration Exploration Exploration Ex Ex- Ex- Ex Co has contracted with the Ute y to start a test on the latter's holdings on the Strawberry fold told four foul miles farther west in the near future These two wells hells Insure a thorough testing of or two of the rite half dozen or so anticlines and terraces terraces terraces ter ter- ter- ter races in the Duchesne vicinity A test on the Hill Hlll Creek structure structure structure ture 40 miles southwest of ot Dragon Dragon Dra Dra- gon is being drilled by the thc Castle- Castle I dale Oil Co and the Hill creek Oil on Co A showing of or oil was encountered encountered encountered I ered at about ft The well is isnow isnow is now fishing at ft with with two strings of tools in the hole The Utah Oil and Refining Co a Midwest subsidiary is moving material on the ground for a te test lest t of this structure strud- strud ture to start immediately and the United States Oil Co already has an outfit on the ground about ready to start drilling Thus the tile Hill Creek structure also will be tested Eight tot lor 01 Uintah linth Basin Ba a inThe ln in The Uintah Oil and Exploration Co drilling near Roosevelt a tew miles from front af of ault unit near tear the center of the Basin has shut down one well for the winter and is drilling In another at 1500 ft Showings of or oil are reported from both wells Near ear Jensen the Davis Oil on Shale and Refining Co is drilling a short distance distance distance dis dis- tance from Crom the of ofa a big bigon oil on sand Thus at least eight wells are promised for the Uintah basin the coming year rear of which five are al alread already already al- al read ready started The big big- company compan scouts seem be confident that at least some of at them thenn will yield big re re- re suIts According td tit oil men men and geologists geologists the formation of the second area lying south of the Denver and andRi andRio andRio Ri Rio Grande and east of or the Wasatch plateau are several sc million years older than those in the Uintah basin and ha have hate 0 do no more relation to the latter than if they la lay thousands of miles apart The Uintah basin formations formations formations for for- are Tertiary Tertian of the same general age as the Ithe California fields while the ther beds of this area are r about the age age of oC the Oklahoma homa and north Texas field Until recently this second area has received practically practically all the oil attention given to Utah Years Years' ago small smal wells wele wel-e struck along the San Juan river ri beloW below be be- low Bluff In the southeast corner of the state During 1920 and 1921 an attempt has been heen made by bythe the San Juan Oil Co to revive this field and a number dumb r of new wells wells' have hare been drilled Some of these yield enough oil oU to be he considered commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial if the they were not s so so extremely extreme extreme- ly remote from transportation and market In ithe the southwesters southwestern corner of the state in the same formations a few very small wells were obtained In years gone by An attempt by the Virgin Dome Oil Co during the past two hero years Ito get larger production on oil the Harrisburg dome in this regIon region region reg reg- ion Is now below 2500 2600 ft Several Se prominent tess have llave been or sire are being made in the central P part rt of or the he state The Ohio Oil Co drilled drilled drilled drill drill- ed a dry hole to ft on the Circle Cliffs Cliffs' anticline miles from Crom a n. railroad and J 1 another dry hole on a dome near Huntington The latter went through the Ferron and Dakota sands and in the Ferron encountered red coal instead of oil all On the San Rafael Swell Swell the largest largest larg larg- est dome In the west th the Carter Oil on Co has recently abandoned a deep test at ft Other loc locations on this thus shuge huge dOl dome e have been made madg h by bythe bytho the tho Old Emery Emer Oil Co and the Reserve Reserve Reserve Re Re- serve Oil on Co Around the thc margin of the Swell are a n number of smaller domes which man many oil all pier pien consider more promising than the Swell itself due to the fact these men say that the Triassic san sands s the most promising In the region are eroded from the Swell as also from Clr Circle lo Cliffs but butare butare butare are still present under these smaller small small- er structures On Salt Wash east easl of Ferron Ferran on the tho- west side o of the tho Swell the L Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- onald on- on ard ald Oil Co Is drilling at about 1400 ft ct and expects to get the tine Triassic sand at ab about ul 1800 ft Ct On the lie dome south of the Swell the Ohio Oil Co has has' cemented casIng casing cas cas casing ing at 2700 ft and will resume drillIng drillIng drilling drill- drill Ing about March l 1 I with to ft to go to co complete lie test Roughly Rough Hough ly between Salt Wash and Caine- Caine yule ville on the Last Chance and Desolation Desolation Desolation Deso Deso- lation domes the Leonard Oil Co Ute Petroleum Co Utah Southern Oil Co and ami Royal Dutch butch Shell have holdings but no tests have been started Northeast of the Swell the Utah Oil and Refining H Co is drilling the Farnham anticline at about 1800 1801 ft Due north of or the Swell the Dutch Shell and others have a beautiful beau beau- if i i Vb bet lIb tb h test tit is expected until the status of or orthe the Dutch Shell Shell- which i foreign IS-foreign controlled has been settled by hy the lie Department of or State at Washington Near Moah Moab where one or two showings have been heen obtained nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing further has hC been Jl found in the Big Dig Six Oil on Cos well which Is drilling drilling drill drill- ing around 1400 ft As for tho the third part of the state stale lying west and north of oC tle tl o Wasatch Parowan and Harmony ranges oil oilmen oilmen men generally consider that It ba bano has no hopes for oil all except perhaps In a small area arca just north of ot great salt lake In this area there are some seepages and a well Is being drilled d near Rozel Hozel 1 I r |